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Facebook’s Libra is still dead – Diem to be sold off for spare parts
Maybe Libra was just very stupid. Because it was a blockchain project started by bitcoiners. Maybe it was always just dumb as hell.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,158 posts.
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Scary fraud ensues when ID theft and usury collide
What’s worse than finding out that identity thieves took out a 546 percent interest payday loan in your name? How about a 900 percent interest loan? Or how about not learning of the fraudulent loan until it gets handed off to collection agents? One reader’s nightmare experience spotlights what can happen when ID…
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Deno in 2021
Retrospect of what happened in 2021 and what's coming in 2022
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A “Sideways” supply response in California winegrapes
New data on the Sideways effect
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Saving on egress switching from AWS to Hetzner
Saving over 100x on egress switching from AWS to Hetzner by Zach Wasserman
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You Don't Need the Cloud
Thymer is a beautiful editor to write, outline and plan at the speed of thought. Real-time multiplayer, malleable with plugins and themes, open to your agents through plain files. End-to-end encrypted, on web, desktop and mobile.
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An ad plugin was stealing revenue for a year and I didn't even notice
Anyone can build their own amusement park here, or find one that's just right for them. A city of parks by Levan Kvirkvelia.
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Buy things, not experiences
There’s a phrase going around that you should “buy experiences, not things.” People, it’s claimed, think that having a lot of stuff is w...
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The Future of E-Bikes
The best feeling on a bike is cruising down a hill, barely pedaling, and taking in the surroundings. E-bikes are like that all the time. "How do you know if someone has an e-bike? They'll tell you!" goes the joke.
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Today in the U.S. we are in the fourth superbubble of the last hundred years
Today in the U.S. we are in the fourth superbubble of the last hundred years, and for the first time in the U.S. we have simultaneous bubbles across all major asset classes.
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On Leaving Facebook
After 8.5 years at Facebook I joined a small startup called Replit. Leaving wasn't easy, and during the process I've talked to half a dozen friends who were ...
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AWS is not a dumb pipe
In 1997, David Isenberg wrote an article called the Rise of the Stupid Network. Isenberg worked at Bell Labs, the R&D lab of AT&T, and was responsible for some significant breakthroughs during the PC and the early int...
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How we bootstrapped our SaaS to $1M ARR
How it took us almost five years and multiple failed projects to grow a sustainable and almost bootstrapped SaaS.
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Former Labor Secretary Found What Work Is Like Now
Bill McCamley was NM's labor secretary, but working at a local movie theater taught him the truth about what's ailing the workforce.
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How will the correction in the stock market impact startup fundraising?
Analyze how the 52% public market correction impacts startup funding rounds, with data showing divergent effects on Series A vs. Series D valuations in 2022.
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American Airlines and The Points Guy are suing each other
American Airlines has been clamping down on websites that work with AAdvantage member data for their customers. They made Award Wallet stop tracking member accounts and they sent a cease and desist letter to Red Ventures, which owns The Points Guy, over its TPG app which - among other things - lets customers track…
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Patents are out of control, and they’re hurting innovation (2017)
The government issues thousands of new patents every week — each one a new regulation — with little to no oversight or review.
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DynamoDB 10 years later
Amazon DynamoDB was introduced 10 years ago today; one of its key contributors reflects on its origins, and discusses the 'never-ending journey' to make DynamoDB more secure, more available and more performant.
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Five Levels of Hype
Trying to categorize exuberance
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Is old music killing new music?
All the growth in the music business now comes from old songs—with consumption of new music actually shrinking. How did we get here, and is there a way back?
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1Password Has Raised $620M
As our online lives become subject to new and evolving threats, we're doubling down on protecting the digital privacy and peace of mind of everyday people – at home and at work.
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Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx
With profound gratitude for his contributions to both F5 and the Internet at large, we announce that Igor Sysoev, author of NGINX and co-founder of NGINX, Inc., is retiring to spend time with friends and family and work on personal projects. Спасибо, Игорь.
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The Intel Split
It appears that Intel’s partnership with TSMC is much larger than it first seemed; the implications for Intel as whole are massive.
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Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
Legendary games, immersive interactive entertainment and publishing expertise accelerate growth in Microsoft’s Gaming business across mobile, PC, console and cloud. REDMOND, Wash. and Santa Monica, Calif. – Jan. 18, 2022 – With three billion people actively playing games today, and fueled by a new generation steeped…
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It’s great to be a consultant
I spent 20 years slaving away at companies doing development, maintenance, troubleshooting, architecture, management, and whatever else needed doing. For all those years I was a permanent hire, working on technology from within.
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Work Somewhere Dysfunctional
The rewards are great if you can survive…